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Monday, 12 June 2017

SILENCE [2016]

After 27 years of toying with the idea, director Martin Scorsese finally tackles Silence, a film adaptation of Shūsaku Endō's novel of the same name.
Set in 17th Century Japan, a time when the Japanese were brutally exterminating anything or body related to Christianity. two Jesuit priests quietly sneak into the nation in search for their missing mentor.
It's such a huge story but Scorsese scales it down into such intimacy it's very apparent the director approached the project with immensely personal feelings about it. However dry the film might be in spots it never stops asking questions with emotional complexity to keep you captivated. No matter how much it asks it seldom supplies answers and instead begs the viewer to seek out their own, should they ever find the correct one.